I get the same errors that taka jedna gets.  The exact same messages
about "Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled", etc.  I mean
thousands of these messages per minute.  This machine has always run
like this.  I has always run hot and when it gets too hot the cpu is
throttled down and the rpms of the internal cpu fan are ramped up.   The
machines originally came with Windows XP Home but I have even put
windows XP Professional on it in the past with no problems.  I tried
disabling acpi by passing the switches  "noapic nolapic acpi=off" on the
grub kernel parameter line but it does not fix the problem.  All that
happens is that now hyperthreading (which is turned on in the bios)
seems not to be recognized by the kernel.  I have all the latest ubuntu
9.10 patches installed by the way.   It is definitely dd and rsyslogd
that are consuming cpu resources.  If I tail the /var/log/messages file
you can see a huge stream of these temperature cpu throttling messages
flying past at a fantastic rate.  I know this motherboard is supposed to
work this way because it has software in the bios to shutdown the
machine if the cpu temperature reaches dangerous levels.  This happened
once a few years ago when the copper heat exchange veins used to cool
the cpu got clogged up with dust.  Back then I opened the bottom of the
case, cleaned out the veins and the machine started to work like normal
again.  Last night I checked the veins again and they were all clean and
so far the machine has not shut down unexpectedly on me.  All of which
suggest that it is operating with normal temperature ranges.

Juan

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